{Vintage Finds}

Well hello there. I've been a bit quiet on the blog this month and for that I apologise. I promise to be more consistent in May! I've been very busy at home with diy jobs, spring cleaning and clearing out a mountain of stuff. There is still a lot to do, but progress at least has been made with umpteen trips to the charity shop and the tip. I'm also going to sell some things at a nearby car boot. I'm trying to plan ahead as we have a few big renovation jobs to complete over the next few months. We'll get there.......(at least that's what I keep telling myself!).

Last weekend was a bit hectic. Saturday I spent the day in Manchester at the Flower Workshop (post on the next page if you haven't checked it out yet). And on Sunday, my friend and I headed to York to the Festival of Vintage held at the racecourse. My plan was to do a blog post with all the stalls and entertainment, but it was so busy that I didn't feel I could properly get in to take pictures. My arms also totally ached after carrying the glass vase of flowers back to Leeds the day before! So I haven't written a post about the festival. I did enjoy myself though and thoroughly recommend it for finding some vintage treasures.

I thought it would be nice to share my vintage finds on here once a month and build it up into a little series of posts. But you may be thinking that as I'm decluttering, then what am I buying more stuff for? Well, I am actually being very restrained. I have a list of thing to get from the house and I am sticking to it (even though I wanted about 300 vintage shopping baskets, I didn't buy a single one). Top of my list was a mirror - one of those 1930s style ones with curved edges and a silver chain to hang it up with. I've seen damaged ones go for silly money so I was expecting to pay quite a bit for one. On Sunday at a stall in the Vintage Arcade I found this one priced up at £7.50. I was convinced it was a mistake and asked the lady if it was correct. It was, and of course, I had to buy it. How could I not at that price? It's even in pretty good nick apart from a couple of tiny scratches. It's found it's new home above my fireplace.

There were plenty of vintage books on offer too at the Festival and I found three Agatha Christie novels I haven't read yet to add to my vintage Christie collection. I especially like the Fontana editions published in the 1970s with their groovy illustrations and originally priced up at 50p. I've a fair few of them now and I'll be reading Poirot novels till Christmas at this rate.

And one final item - a vintage terracotta pot for my cactus.

Alongside my good chum Laura, we've started up a Yorkshire based hashtag project #alittleyorkshirevintage where we will show our favourite vintage shops, finds and fairs. Please join in too if you'd like to show us what you've found!